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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. This collection of critical essays attempts to construct a comprehensive portrait of Vidal's writings and to determine why his work has been underestimated. It includes an interview with Vidal in which he discusses his career and his troubled relationship with literary reviewers. Editor(s): Parini, Jay, Ph.D. Num Pages: 321 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
321
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231072083
ISBN
9780231072083
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.43
€ 90.24

Hardback. A comprehensive study of American poetry from colonial times to the present day, which features a wealth of views and reviews by contemporary American literary critics. The poets discussed range from Longfellow and Poe to Ginsberg and Plath. Editor(s): Parini, Jay, Ph.D.; Millier, Brett Candlish. Num Pages: 894 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 64. Weight in Grams: 1407.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
894
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231078368
ISBN
9780231078368
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.42
€ 57.30

Paperback. Examines the importance of the poetic voice and the mysteries of metaphor. This book argues that a poet's originality depends on a deep understanding of the traditions of political poetry, nature poetry, and religious poetry. It is suitable for those interested in a fresh introduction to an art that lies at the centre of Western civilization. Series: Why X Matters Series. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300151466
ISBN
9780300151466
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.34

Hardback. During John Dewey's lifetime (1859-1952), one public opinion poll after another revealed that he was esteemed to be one of the ten important thinkers in American history. This book recaptures the unity of Dewey's life and work, tracing themes through philosopher's childhood years, family history, religious experience, and influential friendships. Num Pages: 592 pages, 50 photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK; HPCF5; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 36. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231116763
ISBN
9780231116763
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.18

Hardback. Editor(s): Halio, Jay L. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
175
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611491029
ISBN
9781611491029
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.49

Hardback. Quintus Ennius, often considered the father of Roman poetry, is best remembered for his epic poem, the Annals, a history of Rome from Aeneas until his own lifetime. This book represents an important bridge between Homer's works in Greek and Vergil's Aeneid. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421411293
ISBN
9781421411293
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.06
€ 65.07

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 322 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 280 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1028.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691642390
ISBN
9780691642390
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 165.07

Paperback. This Readers Guide offers a lively and accessible introduction to the essential criticism surrounding the fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Jay Corwin explores major critical responses to Marquez's key works, from early and short fiction, to One Hundred Years of Solitude, through to Of Love and Other Demons. Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism. Num Pages: 168 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADSL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 11. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Macmillan Education UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137513366
ISBN
9781137513366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.69

Paperback. This text traces the emergence of a post-absolutist culture in France across a range of works and genres including: Saint-Simon's memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency; Voltaire's first tragedy, "Oedipe"; Watteau's last great painting, "L'Enseigne de Gersaint"; and the plays of Marivaux. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10 halftones, notes, index. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226093123
ISBN
9780226093123
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Commune Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934639153
ISBN
9781934639153
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.70

Paperback. aeo Provides an accessible introduction to the study of the biblea s importance for Western literature. aeo Offers students the opportunity to study the intertextual relations between literature and the bible. aeo Contains a section of additional suggested reading and a full bibliography. Editor(s): Jasper, David; Prickett, Stephen. Num Pages: 368 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Oxford
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631208570
ISBN
9780631208570
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99

Paperback. The making of a great Chilean poet. Num Pages: 266 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; 2ADS; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
Tamesis Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855662803
ISBN
9781855662803
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 32.90

Paperback. Philip K Dick was one of the most incisive, subversive, and entertaining American authors of the last half of the twentieth century. This book examines the first eight cinematic adaptations of Dick's fiction in light of their literary sources. Num Pages: 5 images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803218604
ISBN
9780803218604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.88

Paperback. Moving subtly through a diverse range of thinkers and topics - aesthetics, affect, animation and film studies, bibliography, cognitive science, this book shows that a more sustained, less apocalyptic attention to ideas might lead to a richer discussion of our intellectual landscapes and the place of the humanities and social sciences in it. Editor(s): Potts, Jason; Stout, Daniel. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: DSA; HP; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822356813
ISBN
9780822356813
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.51

Hardcover. A collection of articles that focuses on Irish writing in Latin in the Renaissance and aims to rewrite Irish cultural history through recovery and analysis of Latin sources. Editor(s): Harris, Jason; Sidwell, Keith C. Num Pages: 246 pages, facsim. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 166 x 241 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
246
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859184530
ISBN
9781859184530
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.00
€ 31.26

Hardback. Underwriting the Accident shows how late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novels taught Americans to classify a wide range of modern injuries as blameless accidents, which in turn became a powerful rationale for new and more interdependent modes of social organization. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 519.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804775359
ISBN
9780804775359
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.52

Hardback. This book examines Chinese culture under the condition of postsocialist modernity, in which market reforms have fundamentally altered the fields of film, literature, and cultural debate. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 table, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBH; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804758741
ISBN
9780804758741
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.75

Paperback. This book examines Chinese culture under the condition of postsocialist modernity, in which market reforms have fundamentally altered the fields of film, literature, and cultural debate. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 table, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; APF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 434.
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804773638
ISBN
9780804773638
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.83

Hardback. This study will attempt to understand, through both a careful reading of Kundera's oeuvre as well as a consideration of the Continental philosophical tradition, the place that Kundera calls "the universe of the novel." I argue that Kundera transforms--not applies--philosophical reflection within the art form of the novel. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; DS; HPD; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823268207
ISBN
9780823268207
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.03

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719090882
ISBN
9780719090882
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.84

hardcover. By analysing the works of specific prison writers but not being limited to a single locale or narrow time span, Fitting Sentences offers a significant historical and global overview of a unique genre in literature. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 555.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802038333
ISBN
9780802038333
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.63

Hardback. Editor(s): Haslam, Associate Professor Jason (Dalhousie University). Series: Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474425551
ISBN
9781474425551
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

Hardcover. Num Pages: 277 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813936239
ISBN
9780813936239
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.05

Hardback. Provides an annotated guide to the wealth of biographical sources focusing on the life of Mark Twain. Num Pages: 144 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; DSBF; DSK; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 331.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810836303
ISBN
9780810836303
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.61

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